Primary Job Title General Partner Primary Organization 
Root Ventures
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
Investor Type Investor Stage
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Lee Edwards is a General Partner at Root Ventures, an early-stage investment firm focused on hard tech. Lee's area is the software thesis for Root - including developer tools and services, software infrastructure, tools for data scientists and engineers, and applied AI & ML. He works closely with Daily, Esper, HASH, and Superconductive.
His angel and scout portfolio includes (Lever, Common Networks, Skydio, Dipsea Stories.) Lee previously worked at Teespring as a CTO and VP of Engineering. He attended Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.
He was previously CTO & VP Engineering at Teespring, Lead Engineer at SideTour and Engineering Manager at Groupon after SideTour was acquired by Groupon in 2013, and an engineer at Pivotal Labs and iRobot.
Lee holds a B.S. in Engineering with a concentration in Systems Design from Olin College of Engineering in Needham, MA. He was a member of the second graduating class in 2007, and now serves as Olin College's first alumni full member of the Board of Trustees.
